Chapter 491: A Formidable Enemy! A Terrifying Enemy That Exceeds All Bounds!

Do we really have to take such a risk, and do we really have to trust us this much?

If Sheng Zhaoshui were in a normal state, at this moment he would only be twitching his lips and jumping his facial muscles, unable to help but speak out like this.

Because right now, this move by Du En could be called extremely risky; the slightest carelessness would result in the fall of his original heart, leaving behind nothing but the fate of an empty shell! Yet he still acted resolutely, without the slightest hesitation.

At the same time, as he walked through the void, he forcibly returned to his original form, appearing out of place here, his face and eyes calm to the end.

Since it can be done, why not do it? A reason like this is already enough!

Then, how is he going to resolve the Grudge-Evil next, and rescue the person?

Sheng Zhaoshui could not help but think this, watching closely.

The fetal form of the Grudge-Evil, that blurry, complex, and distorted girl-shaped body, seemed to cast its own substantial gaze from the bottom of an ambiguous, bizarre light, gloomy and resentful, like an unknown stare originating from the deep void.

Du En just silently reached out his hand toward It.

Previously, on Zhu Yi, he had left behind protective, life-saving measures.

The reason he could be certain she was still savable was precisely because those measures were still being consumed layer by layer, continuously dissociating and taking the damage, which was the only way to protect her essence.

The fetal form seemed to be laughing, and also seemed to be crying.

If it were not for being tightly bound by the Universe Main Pivot at this moment, It would have already opened Its mouth to kiss and gnaw on Its first prey.

Zhu Yi was the bait in the trap!

Pity, it didn't manage to kiss or eat her...

Soundless and formless, there seemed to be such a sigh.

Sheng Zhaoshui immediately could not help but feel his heart surge.

Because the Grudge-Evil created by the Feather-Falling Supreme was truly becoming more and more inclined toward a normal living being! What on earth did he want to do? Create a brand new, fallen living being that is more special than gods, more transcendent than all spirits, and immortal? Du En was not affected in the slightest by all this, simply and calmly reaching his hand into that bizarre and ambiguous form.

Naturally, it was not without protection and measures; during the process of reaching out, branches had already extended and bloomed, revealing a cold, hard black-and-white tone, gaining strength by connecting to the Main Pivot.

Dharma treasure transformation, Half-Universe Rope.

Or rather, Main Pivot Flower Branch! It coiled around his hand, forcibly achieving the killing efficacy of the Main Pivot, like a sharp boning knife, trimming away the eyesore flesh, finding the target within its body, and then suddenly pulling it out in one go.

Bits of golden fragments, like shards of the sun, scattered along with the appearance of Zhu Yi's intact figure.

You really are, not stingy at all! Your own origin, no, life-source, using it as a partition, using it as bait... How was he certain that it would make this so-called Grudge-Evil take the bait? Sheng Zhaoshui could not help but sigh with emotion, and on the side of An Shen, as the Grudge-Evil fetal form lost its foundation, the pressure was significantly reduced, and he instantly had the leisure to think and reflect.

The reason is actually very simple.

The last Grudge-Evil I encountered was like a hungry dog seeing good meat, chasing and attacking relentlessly, pursuing without end.

Since the Grudge-Evil is now gradually becoming a living being under the push of the Supreme's actions, carrying the reason of thought, that means it will take the bait, waiting for him—this piece of the best meat—to come over.

However, Zhu Yi also has to be willing to cooperate.

Yes, she knew about this matter and was cooperating.

"Du, En..."

"You've worked hard."

"No, no..."

Zhu Yi, who had fallen powerlessly into his embrace, just trembled and murmured delirious words: "The, the sun of the Ten Thousand Stars has long since extinguished, the, the heavens and earth will also eventually fall, everything, everything is..."

Her eyes flickered non-stop, her figure dimmed and brightened, this manifestation of her human form appeared turbulent and uneasy, as if suffering from some kind of impact, or as if something had gone wrong with her, to the point of dissipating and disappearing.

"Sound the whistle of the end's gestation, exercise the fixed destiny of reincarnation, that is, that is, the perfection of the Ring-Abode... Thank you."

Without giving anyone time to react, leaving only those two abrupt words at the end, she suddenly chuckled and vanished instantly. Before Du En could react, he had already been bounced back into his own shell, as if he had never been separated or gone out.

Like wind blowing over high grass, pressing the grass down, thus revealing what was beneath it.

The three of them suddenly returned to their original forms. The void of this principle, and the Main Pivot of the Universe, suddenly had their entire roof flipped off. Looking up abruptly, they only saw the shattering of the dark cave and the scattering of the blood-mist sky.

"Woo..."

A gloomy, long howl echoed above the sky, like a cry, and also like a roar. If one pondered it carefully, it actually had no meaning at all, only formless malice like a rainstorm, booming and lashing down, soaking the ordinary pedestrians and pressing them down until they were bent and unable to move.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Whether it was the Three Talents combined force or the Universe Main Pivot, both were crushed in this rainstorm of malice.

The normal laws of heaven and earth were exiting, and abnormal, distorted principles were taking the stage.

?! Du En's heart gave a 'whoosh' of shock. Difficult and swift, with a 'crack' of breaking bones, he raised a hand and pointed. The Profound Turtle Treasure Shield blocking the door in the distance flew over suddenly, its brilliance bursting forth, booming and expanding wildly.

"Howl!!!"

A phantom of a Profound Turtle the size of a continent appeared, letting out its howl toward the sky, erupting with normal earth laws, covering the three of them, blocking the pouring malice, and attempting to let the true principles of heaven and earth return.

However.

Crack! A shattering sound rang out.

Bang! A rupture followed closely behind.

The continent-sized Profound Turtle phantom collapsed with a boom, the shield erupting with earth power disintegrated on the spot, shattering into pieces and scattering as real, fine raindrops.

"Change formation!"

Because of the time gained, An Shen had already reacted quickly, immediately throwing out new formation bases and materials, his hands forming Dharma seals rapidly, incorporating and merging the remnants of the Three Talents Main Pivot.

Change the formation, Sun-Moon Combined Attack Treasure Formation! Du En, bearing the destruction of his treasure and the backlash brought by the most critical manifestation of malice, also threw out formation materials without a moment's delay, while stepping forward and driving his own Dharma power and Dharma body.

Sun and Moon, Sun and Moon; he acted as the Great Sun, making An Shen transform into the Full Moon.

At that moment, a Great Sun glowed and rose into the sky, and a Full Moon sank and floated in response.

Then, what use was Sheng Zhaoshui?

Excluded directly from the formation, he seemed somewhat stunned, then startled, raising his head with cold sweat all over his face, his divine sense subconsciously shrinking rapidly.

Still a step too late.

The blood-mist sky began to disperse at this moment, and the existence of the sun could not be seen at all, just as Zhu Yi had just said; the sun had actually extinguished long ago. Just like Du En's lost perception, the sun was actually only a phantom. And that vicious, evil monster finally revealed its form directly in their eyes.

At the same time, the two types of evil objects on the surface also changed accordingly.

The Red Star fluctuated non-stop, like a reflection in water swaying because the dark tide turned bright, then suddenly split from the middle. With a wide-open mouth, it swallowed and chewed up the Four Seasons and Five Elements Floating Garden that had previously blocked its brilliance, then retreated gloomily. Between them, a thick malice radiated, which was exactly the one they were most familiar with.

As for the malice on the back side, which was now like a formless rainstorm, if one pondered it carefully, it was somewhat pseudo-similar.

Sheng Zhaoshui's thoughts could still function normally, but the divine sense he had failed to retract in time was being dragged away; he decisively chose to sever it, yet it felt like a dull knife cutting through ox hide, truly beyond his control.

The sense of time was stretched out endlessly, so he still saw the Profound Azure Star Realm, or rather, the Inverted-Growing Building Wood atop the Profound Azure main star, suddenly shudder as the Gate of the Upper Realm collapsed and crumbled.

The main root, which had been suppressed all along, grew crazily, and every root hair pierced into the star and into the void, frantically extracting all nutrients within the star realm's sector to provide for the tree's main body.

Crack, crack, crack! The star disintegrated rapidly, and the grayish-white tree body protruded from the crust on the opposite side.

The evil-mutated, corrupted Divine Wood was fulfilling its duty precisely because it had received a heavenly mandate.

Why?

To reach the heavens!

Or rather, to reach the earth? Because it grew inverted and corrupted, facing the opposite direction! But there was no doubt that it was influenced by some upper-level force, its entire being completely reversed, as if responding to, or perhaps being summoned by, something; the main root was held high, being approached, while the treetop seemed to be struggling to pull away—in the end, what was the reason?!

Boom! The star collapsed completely!

Taking advantage of the effect caused by the collapse of the spiritual veins, Sheng Zhaoshui suddenly cast a spell to strike, finally severing his divine sense, and then, in extreme horror, he finally raised his head completely and finally saw the other side clearly.

He saw that evil fetus, the Evil Fetus of Ten Thousand Stars! The blood-mist sky finally cleared, and the inside and outside of the star realm were both collapsing; the Inverted-Growing Building Wood absorbed the power of the spiritual veins and the power of the void, growing wildly until it exceeded the scale and magnitude of the sun itself, yet in front of Him, it was merely a tiny strip of meat that would be voluntarily cast into His mouth in a single breath.

Crunch, crunch……

The evil fetus, whose gestation was just over halfway, looking like a six-month-old human fetus, opened and closed its dark, ink-like mouth, chewing on the Inverted-Growing Building Wood.

He retracted His head slightly, as if surprised and puzzled that the food in His mouth was so unpalatable; very dissatisfied, He opened His mouth wide and inhaled, and a tether appeared out of thin air from some unknown distance away, dragging something toward Him.

That was another star realm.

The children of the life source had already slaughtered everything upon it, turning the surface into a single entity and radiating thick resentment; that was the existence known as the Resentful Evil.

The Resentful Evil, which should have been immortal and indestructible, exceptionally deformed and twisted, requiring one to rack their brains and pay a great price to suppress, and which would lead to failure if one were even slightly careless.

Spreading evil nature, spreading evil strangeness, the evil manifestation falling into concealment……

In the wide-eyed gaze of the human cultivator, it was also just helplessly cast into the mouth of the abyss.

The sun was extinguished.

The Resentful Evil died.

Using the star realm's spiritual veins as a tether, another few dozen stars that were pulled over, the entire star domain, were swallowed in one gulp, chewed crunch-crunch and devoured, as if only then did it seem satisfied.

Was the Supreme's handiwork limited only to the Profound Azure Star Realm?

Why would they think that? It was simply ridiculous! All the star realms that had been downgraded by the extraction of spiritual veins and spiritual Qi, and even those whose spiritual veins and spiritual Qi had not been extracted, those star realms controlled by the Falling Feather Immortal Sect, a massive chunk of the boundless universe, were all the Supreme's pasture! Even the Resentful Evil, which made the True Monarchs feel unfathomable and required them to rack their brains and find ways to deal with, was nothing more than fodder cultivated by him!

The Evil Fetus of Ten Thousand Stars was still in development, eating up suns, star realms, spiritual veins, and life sources one by one; it was just that the Profound Azure Star Realm was relatively close and suitable as a stepping stone for them to stand on, which was why it had been selected as the landing point.

"……How on earth is this supposed to be killed?"

Sheng Zhaoshui was rendered speechless, dazed and stunned; even with the killing move given by True Monarch Chengru, now looking at the Evil Fetus of Ten Thousand Stars—with its outrageous scale, terrifying magnitude, and unfathomably evil depth, like an invisible swallowing hole of logic—he felt only bewilderment, only fear, only despair……

As if triggered by the light here and the sun and moon still shining together, the eyes-closed Evil Fetus tilted His head slightly, and a sense of terror instantly drenched this place; subsequently, that familiar malice, the true form of the Red Star, became the protagonist before them once again.

The advantage was that it acted like a lid, blocking the terror radiating from the Evil Fetus of Ten Thousand Stars.

The disadvantage was that the malice opened its eyes, and it turned out to be an umbilical cord of that evil fetus.

"ROAR!!!"

A twisted, roaring long howl rang out, and that umbilical cord approached, casting the shadow of its own great power, allowing them to finally see the true form of the evil malice.

Deer antlers intertwined, with a section broken off.

Camel head festering, pitted and bumpy.

Rabbit eyes incomplete, turbid and shattered.

Snake neck scaleless, having long since fallen off.

Clam belly flesh-red, alienated and deformed.

Scales few, with almost none remaining.

Eagle claws straight and stiff, carrying the intent of death.

Tiger paws thick and rotten, flowing with pus.

Finally, the ears, cast in red light, as if the Red Star were flowing; looking closely, they seemed to be brains, and also like beads.

Thick evil nature permeated its body, and horrifying malice flowed upon it; it possessed a relatively pure kind of extreme terror! Is this thing something we can fight? Isn't this too far beyond our level? Even Du En, at this moment, could not help but have such a unanimous thought, one that did not suit the status of a heaven-gifted genius.

The reason was simple: as that umbilical cord approached and revealed itself, if they hadn't seen it wrong or misidentified it, this, this, damn it, it seemed to be the corpse of a Dragon Venerable?! Although it looked quite shriveled and had already been drained of much nourishment to support that Evil Fetus of Ten Thousand Stars, it still possessed the length to coil around a star and the great power to crush a sun head-on; it was a genuine Great Vehicle Venerable! A Venerable who had died and was being squeezed dry was still a Venerable!

How could it be an existence that the three of them, at the Spirit Severing stage, could handle or defeat?

"So, whatever moves you have, use them all; that way, at least you can die with a bit of dignity."

Du En calmly transmitted his voice to his companions, but if one pondered carefully, there was actually some emotional fluctuation in these words; it seemed like helplessness, a sense that although he had long anticipated that the Supreme's schemes were dangerous, he still hadn't expected True Monarch Chengru to be so unreliable as to actually let the three of them, small shrimps, spar against the likes of a Dragon Venerable.

That was a Dragon Venerable, one of the five great Dragon Venerables, once famous and feared by all spirits; they hadn't even reached the True Monarch realm, so how were they supposed to fight its corpse with their heads? Hey, hey, hey, at this point, stop with the witty remarks! I can't even say anything anymore, okay?

Sheng Zhaoshui had an expression of wanting to cry but having no tears, his hands and feet unable to stop trembling.

This was an instinctive fear; because the target was too far beyond his level, it was completely useless for him to try to restrain it.

Who told him he was outside the formation, facing the approaching Dragon Venerable corpse head-on? The terrifying pressure, accompanied by deep, greedy malice, was like having a black hole smashed directly onto him.

(End of this chapter)